^Nothing wrong with the PSA about AE, I just remembered having read this:

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria

One great trick for inexpensive shoe trees for Allen-Edmonds is a pair of Allen-Edmonds seconds in the same model but in a smaller size.

You stuff the smaller shoe into the larger. Works perfectly every time, but make sure that you get the seconds in the same color so that there is no unsightly bleeding of the wrong color from the outside of the smaller Allen-Edmonds seconds into the interior of the larger Allen-Edmonds that you are attempting to preserve.

Sometimes, the stuffing will be hard. So, generously lube the smaller pair with the Elixir of the Gods, Saphir Renovateur.